I tried that plugin, it didn’t work.
About that code in WordPress stackexchange, where am I supposed to put that code? What file?
@kjgbriggs – setting up a child theme is just a way to essentially make a new theme – using another “parent” as your template. When you activate, it’s just ONE theme that it handling everything for your wp/bp site.
You do no provide enough details about your theme names, and what you like about the main one and the one that ‘looks better with buddyprees’ – however, if you just like the layout of the bp components with he second theme more, then yes I believe you could make a child theme from your primary theme, and then go into your secondary theme and start to pull some of the layout code for the bp specific components and add those to your main theme.
If it’s overall colors and such you are trying to mix, like have a red header for your main site and a blue header for your bp pages – that is not going to be so easy..
it’s easy to learn about child themes here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
and a little more digging to learn about bp specif pages and components here:
BuddyPress Theme Development
for minor changes you can keep things simple by activating your second theme that you like with the bp looking better, go to the bp pages where you like the layout, right click on the element that looks good and click inspect elements – this will give you the css rules that are working the way you like.. things like alignment properties, bold, colors perhaps – copy those – put them into your new child theme styles and such..
of course some things can be more tricky if your second theme has fancy functions.php, java and all that included.
When I send a message to a member, it cc’s 2 other members (random). I am not selecting other names.
I am running WordPress 4.2.3 (multi-site operation)
I am running BuddyPress 2.3.2.1 (freshly installed)
I enter one name in the ‘Send To’ field.
I enter a subject.
I write the message.
I press ‘Send Message’
After the message sends, it reads: CONVERSATION BETWEEN CORRECTUSER, RANDOMUSER, RANDOMUSER AND YOU.
I checked the RANDOMUSER accounts and the message was delivered. I logged in using a different username and went through the same steps and it happens just the same.
I deleted the entire BuddyPress folder from the root and installed a fresh copy. Still same.
It happens on the Twenty theme and other themes.
Thanks for your feedback.
Hello,
I recently installed buddypress on my wordpress site and found that it was not the right application for what I was trying to achieve. Unfortunately I’m not able to deactivate the plug-in as each time I try I receive the following error:
The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
•The website is under maintenance.
•The website has a programming error.
Has anyone else run into this problem and any thoughts on what I might do to successfully deactivate buddypress on my site?
Thanks,
Chet
I’m with wordpress.org — up to date on all versions of WP and BP and BBPress. I am using the Meadowbrook theme and the OptimizePress plugin for my course and OptimizeMember for my membership sections. I have set up BP and BBP for our forum for the students to participate in and complete assignments, etc.
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I had a customer buy the course (haven’t launched it yet or worked out the kinks, she just found it and bought it) yesterday.
She went to register and it brought her to a 404 error. I came here and to OP and saw that I needed to allow ALL to register. I did that, and she was able to register. However, she was only able to register as a free user, and not as a paid subscriber at the level she purchased.
I have no idea how to fix this for any future customers. I clicked the options that the BP and the OM registration pages would work together. I really really want to use the forum, but I don’t speak code and I’m freaking out that the fix I had to do manually isn’t going to work in the future. And that I’m going to have an angry customer and lots of future ones.
Please help me!! What am I doing wrong or not understanding?
Thank you.
A few month ago I uploaded the BuddyPress Secure Passwords plugin to the wp.org directory. It’s a very basic plugin, just checks the strength of the passwords on the BP registration form and doesn’t let users register until they choose at least a medium strength password. It works on all of my BP sites, in my testing area, and seemingly on 50+ active installs. Yesterday I received a big 1 star review from someone who claims it doesn’t work but doesn’t give any details. So now my average rating is 1.0 which means nobody will ever even look at this plugin. Could someone please tell me what’s wrong with this plugin, because I tested it many times and it never had any problem?
I think it’s tools -> Export to export your posts and pages.
make a full backup is fairly easy – and you could easily recreate what you currently have with a zip file and an export of your database.
just get to your phpmyadmin, export (click add drop table under advanced) –
via file manager compress / zip your whole site.
(you might want to make a separate zip file of your wp-content folder to easily re-add your pics and plugins and themes and such with new install) – and download that – to upload later
real instructions here https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
then you could delete all the files in your your folder – reinstall wp (if you use a new db, then your old one will still be there if you decide to revert)
I would do a folder for your /sys and a separate install in /rust or whatever, and put a custom html index.ht page in your root that says welcome click here for my rust group, click here for my game group.. or something like that.. but that’s me and my limited knowledge of what you are going for.
pretty easy to import your posts and pages into a new wp.. if you plan to re-use pics and stuff, upload your wp-content folder and unzip – sometimes this is best done before you import posts and pages with the wp tool – sometimes you click “download and import attachments” – sometimes not. sometimes you have delete all the pages and posts and them re-import them and select the other option (don’t download import pics) or whatever.. I can’t remember which works and which fails – but it’s all fairly quick and painless regardless – and good practice for fixing a major problem in the futre.
note sure if these work or not – never used them:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-invites/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-private-community/
Let me know if you try them and they fail or work!
@mattfl850 – this info will help with that journey:
bottom of the page: https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installation-in-wordpress-multisite/
I am sure this is possible, it’s not the way I would do it… might also want to consider some of the info here: http://halfelf.org/2011/dont-use-wordpress-multisite/ (updated may 2015 😉
Others may agree or disagree, and you may be keeping your server tuned like a well oiled machine – hidden from the SE spiders and brute force attackers and all that.
Of course I am not an expert, or a bp dev or anything – just another user who has tried a few different setups and spent many hours trying to do what it “possible” and should be “simple” – and pulled my hair out trying to make things like that work well :))
Not sure if anything is changed in recent updates, but I will mention that when I did this kind of conversion; I had to install the role scoper plugin (now called press permit) – in order to hide people’s private pics they uploaded – as they were visible in the media gallery for other bp users on my sites who had signed up for a “blog” (not called “site” in multi-site) – that was a painful thing to find out the hard way – maybe things have changed with that and other issues – not sure.
Have fun with that and let me know how it works out for ya!
I’ve already installed multisite wordpress. I would rather not use separate installs if possible.
@ajay25 – maybe the wp plugin “good question” ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/good-question/ ) will do what you are asking (?)
Maybe “buddypress humanity”
I imagine there are other similar ones in the wp repo these days
Thanks so far.
I am using latest version of WordPress and Latest of Buddypress
Lets forget about css for now, I think I need to redo how activity stream is generating the html. If I want to get done as in my example (1st post) then I need to generate my own HTML. I am considering writing my own plugin to make it do what I want..
What buddypress filter can I use to adjust the html below?
<div class="activity-inner">
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</div>
Hi,
I am using buddypress, wp job manager and have also installed buddypress job manager.
I am using the default theme of buddypress.
Can any one please let me know how to add a maths problem to the login & registration page without redirecting the users to the default wordpress login/registration page.
Hello,
As I have read here, BP modifies the $wp_query object, rendering several WordPress functions useless inside the original loop.
However, I need to access the page slug.
I’m on http://www.domain.com/group/name-of-group/ and I need to access “name-of-group”. Any suggestions? For what it’s worth, I am trying to do so in buddypress.php right after header() — in the loop or out of the loop, it doesn’t matter. I just don’t want to resort to parsing the URL.
Thank you.
I am running wordpress 4.2.2 with presscore theme. I have generated the pages including members, i.e. http://www.teachingandlearning.ie/members/
All sub pages of these are incorrectly redirecting to wp-admin dashboard.
E.g.
http://teachingandlearning.ie/members/colin-lowry/
etc.
What code do I need to change have this working correctly? Permalinks appear to be running correctly. I have confirmed that the issue still occurs with with Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, etc…
Wordpress 4.2.2 – BuddyPress Version 2.3.2.1
I cannot understand how to set up Memberships, Registration. Tutorials don’t seem to address this.
Please give me link to documentation.
I go to Settings > BuddyPress > Pages & I see these instructions/fields to fill in, but no clue as to what all this means:
Directories
Associate a WordPress Page with each BuddyPress component directory.
Members > PAGE NAME
Registration
Associate WordPress Pages with the following BuddyPress Registration pages.
Register > PAGE NAME
Activate > PAGE NAME
BuddyBoss support says: Please create a page for each option and then you can select those pages for each option. Create the Pages first , after that you will get options to select them.
This is clear as mud.
Debugging PHP code is part of any project, but WordPress comes with specific debug systems designed to simplify the process as well as standardize code across the core, plugins and themes. This page describes the various debugging tools in WordPress and how to be more productive in your coding as well as increasing the overall quality and interoperativity of your code.
The following code, inserted in your wp-config.php file, will log all errors, notices, and warnings to a file called debug.log in the wp-content directory. It will also hide the errors so they do not interrupt page generation.
// Enable WP_DEBUG mode
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
// Enable Debug logging to the /wp-content/debug.log file
define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true);
// Disable display of errors and warnings
define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false);
@ini_set(‘display_errors’,0);
// Use dev versions of core JS and CSS files (only needed if you are modifying these core files)
define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true);
Thank !!
SherieySron@Ufindthem
@mattfl850 – so you just need to the basic functions of BP with each? (not give each member a separate blog/site as well) – is what I am guessing…
I imagine these is a graceful way to put a wp/bp install in your root directory and network activate bp to create separate members and mesh this with multi-site to make it so that /sbs is a new “site” and /rust is..
but if I was going this (And I am not a bp dev or any kind of wp expert) – I would just install wp/bp in /sbs and do another separate wordpress install in /rust and add bp there.
That may be the simplest setup for what you describe as the current goal. Others may have a differing idea.
@natmba1 – places like dreamhost are good at doign some hand holding with wordpress issues, so I would suggest them, or bluehost – or someone similar who really specializes in WP hosting for those who are new(ish) to the self hosting game – their tech have more knowledge about common wp issues – and they have some extra layers of security that help a bit with common wp things like brute force login / hacking attempts.
Just about any host out there can run wordpress fine – I try to avoid windows hosting platforms – as the setup for running wp quickly and easily just seems smoother with the ‘nix based servers –
I am sure others have good recommendations as well – I will tell you from my recent experiences I am really liking tmdhosting.com – as their support has wowed me this year, and they have strong mod-sec setups to block multiple password fails already running.
Some people look for price first – I say support is more important than anything else. I could give you a long list of hosting places that have completely failed me when it comes to support – and if your site goes down and the server needs to be restarted, you don’t want to wait 48 hours to here back from some level one support guy that does not fix the problem, no matter how cheap the place may be.
Obviously I have not tried every hosting company in the world, so don’t take my experiences as the only voice on this.
most hosting places have one step installs for wordpress these days – like I said earlier, I usually suggest dreamhost for total newbies – but I am more familiar with the standard cpanel admin server backend that places like tmdhosting and hostgator provide – I get a bit lost in the dreamhost panel sometimes – but if you have not already gotten used to finding things in either panel – then that would not be an issue for you.
The good thing is that it’s pretty easy to change your wordpress hosting to a different place if your needs change – so I don’t think you need to worry too much about picking the perfect place right off the bat.
I should probably check to see if I have an bonus code or something from these hosting places, but not sure it would jive with the bp group to provide you with an affiliate link where I got a kickback if you signed up.
If you were looking for dedicated servers I’d have more suggestions – but I don’t think you’ll need that kind of server power for a while (if ever)
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trigger_error( sprintf( __( ‘%1$s was called incorrectly. %2$s %3$s’ ), $function, $message, $version ) );
Can anybody tell me how I can fix that error?
Hello,
I have a site where members can define their gender (thanks to a specific xprofile field, and depending of that, have a specific xprofile field to define their age.
ie : member can be male or female or couple. If they define themself as male, the have to fill the xprofile ‘male_age’. If female, then ‘female_age’ and if couple, both ‘male_age’ and ‘female_age’ should be filled.
The issue there is that I need to make these fields (male_age and female_age) required. If I do this, the 2 fields are required for all members, which is not what I want.
What could be done to adapt the right situation?
Wordpress 4.2.2
Buddypress 2.2.3.1
Thanks
Pat
If you take a look at the WordPress code base, you’ll see there is similar logic applied to username. The gist will be
1. Query the database for a list of display names
2. Throw an error if the desired name already exists
